maxim, that only governesses are to enjoy the credit of extraordinary attainments. To hear all other persons talk, you would really suppose they lived in an age when money, and time, and leisure, and abilities, were requisite for gaining a variety of accomplishments; nay, even in those dark times, when the studying of books was a necessary preliminary to knowing their contents; such is the modesty and humanity of the men of England, that they conceal the excess of their learning, that the women may shine. The higher classes of females, upon principles of equal delicacy, also hide their's, so that with governesses only there is no reserve. I have conversed with some of the most learned counsellors, and best instructed ladies, of this polished nation, and never could bring any of them to confess above a third part of the genius and information owned to by the teachers of their children: it cannot be that they do not possess so much, for most of them, from superiority of wealth, have had far more opportunities of cultivating their abilities; and here I must observe, that though I give Englishmen all due credit for a vast stock of forbearance as to the display of their own acquirements, still it seems evident that the women are very greatly their superiors in genius and capacity; whatever may be the abilities of tutors, those of tutoresses far exceed them. I have remarked that masters, however miraculous their mode of instructing, do not teach more than six or eight different languages, or three or four several arts and sciences, at a time; that there are language masters, music masters, dancing masters, &c.; that the musician does not teach drawing, nor the professor of languages, dancing; nor the artist, singing; nor the posture-master" all the usual routine of female education;" but governesses teach, "unassisted," all that themselves have learned from a dozen different tutors.

As a simple proof of the supernatural method of instructing common in England, and also of the peculiar power of learning enjoyed by English ladies, I subjoin copies, verbatim, of enquiries for governesses, the originals of which have been lately published. Here is one.

"WANTED, for two young ladies, a finishing governess, not exceeding thirty years "of age, of the Established Church, who is capable of imparting instruction in a superior "style, and of conversing in the French and Italian languages with fluency, and teaching "them with grammatical purity; the former with the Parisian, the latter with the Tuscan 66 accent; also drawing, the piano-forte, singing, dancing, the use of the globes, geography, "writing, and arithmetic, with a perfect knowledge of her own language, will be "required. To a lady who can give undeniable testimonials of her ability in each of the "above branches of education, a liberal salary will be given. As a minute investigation "will be the result of an application, it is particularly requested that no one will reply " to this advertisement who is not fully competent to undertake the whole of the above." Times.

This is the other.

"WANTED, in a gentleman's family, residing in the country, a governess, to com. "plete the education of four young ladies, in the English, French, and Italian languages, "music (including harp, piano-forte, and singing), dancing, and drawing, and every "other requisite to a polite and rational education. The lady must be of the Established

"Church, and her conduct such as may serve for an example, as well as a guide, to her "pupils. A very liberal salary will be given."

Times.

If you had any doubts as to the truth of what I have told you, the perusal of these documents must, I am persuaded, have banished them; you see, that accomplishments in such perfection and variety, as it would be scarcely possible to the wisest and wealthiest inhabitant, of any less fortunate country, to attain in the course of a long life, are in England required of a young female, with as little hesitation, and with as much coolness, as we should demand honesty and sobriety in a domestic; the conclusion is, the respective qualifications desired, are equally likely to be found.

Now I know that you, who are my friend, will find no difficulty in believing all I advance for your information; but it is possible that, among some of your acquaintance, to whom you may chance to communicate the contents of my letter, you may find doubters: if so, acquaint them with some facts it is necessary they should know; tell them, that Englishmen are particularly reflective: so fond of reasoning, that they never converse; so devoted to study, that they submit to the society of women merely as a duty, and endure it from excess of gallantry; so anxious after truth, that, while their bodies are dancing, their minds are generally solving problems (as their serious faces testify); so cautious of imposition, so fearful of error, that they will not look on a stranger lest they should commit themselves by a smile, nor stir their heads (they never dare to sneeze) in presence of a man whose title to their notice is doubtful, lest he should construe the movement into a courtesy. Now is it conceivable, that such a people should hold out their hands for the moon, and cry "give me," for what is not to be had? Would they require impossibilities? Could they be imposed on? No!-they judge from experience: they always require proof of worth: they trace effects to their causes, and demonstrate facts. The inference is clear-the universe does not contain the equal of an English governess.

My heart burns with curiosity to see one of these accomplished creatures. I amuse myself with imagining the nature of the honors which are doubtless paid her; for whether governesses hold their singular powers by right of sex or of courtesy, of course those who acknowledge such powers cannot fail to respect them. I should suppose that they live like queens, that men bow down at their approach, that they are constantly surrounded by admirers, and dispense their smiles in the midst of a crowd, whose greatest pride it is to pay them homage; their receiving these distinctions would be but common justice to the invaluable perfections they are allowed to possess, and Englishmen are celebrated for their love of justice. When I have had an opportunity of observing the details of the ceremonial honor universally paid to an English instructress, and of properly estimating the consideration and respect in which she is held by her employers, I will write again. ARTURIEL.

HYMN TO THE OCEAN.

Roll on, vasty Ocean!
Like mountains in motion

Your gray waters rise,

Till they melt in the skies,

And mingle the azure of Heaven with their own.

'Mid the roll of her drums,
Queen Amphitrite comes,

And her white horses prance

In an Apennine dance,

As they wheel her about on her hollow shell-throne!

O'er the green furrows dashing,

In the heavy ooze splashing,
Down the snow-hillocks sliding,
In the vallied deeps hiding,

They mark out their flight in a pathway of foam.

The long-hair'd daughters

And sons of the waters,
With song follow after,

With shout and with laughter,--

Then sink all at once to their coralline home;

Foot and foot far asunder,
Wind-gods step in thunder
From billow to billow,

Kicking up a white pillow

For him who will sleep stiff and stark on the sea.

Viewless and vapory,

Their sea-green drapery

From their backs down-flowing,

Keep the gazer from knowing

Of what face, of what form, of what fashion they be!

How glorious the sight!

But no less when the Night

From her couch uprisen,

Lets the Moon out of prison

To roam her wild hour---her lone vigil to keep.

O'er the still waters blazing,

Where the green stars are gazing,

As if each were an eye

Of a creature on high,

That saw such a gem as itself in the deep!

Then, then the hollow tolling
Of the waves wide rolling,
And whelming and coiling,---
Like a serpent-brood boiling

In Hell's ample caldron, they writhe and they hiss.

SIN'S SON laughs to hear it,
And longs to be near it,
That for each whirling eddy
He might have a ship ready

To heave with a Ho! down the yawning abyss.

O! this is the hour

To look out from the tower,
Looming low o'er the surge,
And behold how they urge

The Rack-riders! each his blue courser afar.

How in ranks, o'er the plain

Of the floundering main,

They tilt and they joust

Till they're scattered to dust,

With a roar that rings round the wide ocean of war!

Yet wend thee there too

When the great lake is blue,

When the sweet summer-wave

Has forgotten to rave,

And smooth o'er its ripple the sea-maiden glides.

Thine eyes at the sight

Will half close with delight,

And thy soul will confess

That in war or in peace,

A charm in blue Ocean for ever abides!

MADRID.

Madrid! Madrid! the heart is faint with woe,
To think on thee, degraded to the lair,

Where lurks the dragon brood that breathe despair O'er hopes of Freedom, and forbid to blow ;--

No sooner do the buds begin to glow,

Sweet to the scent, and to the vision fair,
Than o'er them steals a pestilential air,

Breath'd from thy caves, that withers the fair show.
Madrid! Madrid! how long shall nations wonder,
To know thee curs'd among abodes of men;
Awake! arise! and burst thy chains asunder,
Ere yet the storm cloud fall upon thee, when
The vengeance of the free shall burst in thunder,
To smite thee as of tyrants the dark den.

A SECTION ON TEA PARTIES.

O the joys of a tea party! the paradise of old ladies, and the seventh heaven of gossips and scandal-mongers! What would be the lives of Englishmen if tea parties were not? Old ladies we should have none, and, still more lamentable thought, gossips and scandalmongers would fall away! Having no place to which they could fly to discharge the load from their breasts, they would at length sink dejected and broken hearted; or haply they might wander into other lands still involuntarily, and with melancholy pleasure heaping up news, yet knowing not who should gather them. Thus, in reference to them, we might use with slight variation the words of Shakspeare, "They never told their news,

"But let concealment, like a worm i' the bud,

"Feed on their haggard cheeks; they pined in thought," &c.

None, indeed, but an Englishman can appreciate the delights of a true tea party. With what pleasing associations is it connected in his mind. The bare word conjures up visions of tattered reputations, newest fashions, newest news, deaths, marriages, suicides, murders, births, rapes, crim. cons., elopements, homicides, parricides, fratricides, infanticides, manslaughtering, overthrowing of monarchies, democracies, aristocracies, destruction of nations, abolition of Christianity, and all other religions, persuasions, and freethinkings, conversion of the Jews, ditto Turks, Infidels, and Heretics, miscellaneous matter, &c. &c. Such is the ample field of the information and speculation of the tea party. Broach whatever subject you will, you cannot go astray. Would you be fully certified whether the price of meat will or will not be raised or depressed a farthing in the pound at such a period, or whether the Catholics will or will not ultimately gain their end, or as to the likelihood or non-likelihood of a vicissitude in an article of fashion, or as to what is the final cause and effect of comets--the most profound calculations and discreet argumentations are entered into touching the matter, and you doubtless have it at length determined to your full, ample, and unqualified satisfaction. Hence then appears the utility and importance of the tea party it is a kind of cabinet council, wherein every matter, be it ever so important, or ever so trivial, is settled and fixed; or, if I may be permitted to use the expression, it is a democratic aristocracy, wherein the opinion of the people is expressed, at the same time that it is qualified by prudent and discreet debate. It is, in brief, a conventicle, which if it only had the power of operation, or putting its resolutions into effect, would be the most potential in the world.

I shall now proceed to give an account of one of these meetings at which I was present a few evenings since. It was given by Lady Gabbleblab, of No. of Street, Bath, which place, as every body knows, is the urbs capitalis of those meetings, which are appropriately defined to be "little social parties, where people meet quite in a friendly way."